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Nuclear Energy Explained: How does it work?
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The Truth About Nuclear Energy
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What is Nuclear Energy? | National Geographic
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The political sabotage of nuclear power
Abundant, emissions-free energy was once the promise of a nuclear-powered future. What happened?
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Once upon a time, America embraced nuclear power as the future of energy. Today it accounts for a mere 18 percent of the nation's electricity generation, while fossil fuels remain dominant at 60 percent. Why did nuclear fail to take off?
From 1967 to 1972, the nuclear sector experienced significant growth, and 48 new nuclear plants were built. But in March 1979, a meltdown at Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island nuclear power plant, which resulted in no casualties and no lingering environmental damage, spooked the entire nation and empowered anti-nuclear activists.
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The Economics of Nuclear Energy
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How do nuclear power plants work? - M. V. Ramana and Sajan Saini
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Our ability to mine great amounts of energy from uranium nuclei has led some to bill nuclear power as a plentiful, utopian source of electricity. But rather than dominate the global electricity market, nuclear power has declined from a high of 18% in 1996 to 11% today. What happened to the great promise of this technology? M.V. Ramana and Sajan Saini detail the challenges of nuclear power.
Lesson by M. V. Ramana and Sajan Saini, animation by Wooden Plane Productions.
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Why Nuclear Energy Is On The Verge Of A Renaissance
For some, nuclear power may conjure images of mushroom clouds or bring back memories of disturbing nuclear disasters like Chernobyle and Fukushima. But despite public fear around nuclear power, the technology has proved to be an emission-free, reliable way to produce large amounts of electricity on a small footprint. As a result, sentiments about the technology are beginning to change.
Both the U.S. government and private companies including X Energy, NuScale and, Bill Gates-backed, TerraPower are pouring money into developing, what they say will be smaller, safer nuclear reactors. CNBC visited Idaho National Laboratory to see the Marvel microreactor firsthand and learn what such developments could mean for the future of nuclear power.
After humankind discovered nuclear fission, the fir...
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Nuclear Reactor - Understanding how it works | Physics Elearnin
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Nuclear reactors are the modern day devices extensively used for power generation as the traditional fossil fuels, like coal, are at the breach of extinction. A nuclear reactor is the source of intense heat which is in turn used for generation of power in nuclear power station. Its mechanism is similar to that of a furnace in a steam generator; the steam is used to drive the turbines of the electric generator system.
A nuclear reactor consists of three crucial components: Fuel elements, moderator and control rods.
Fuel elements come usually in the shape of thin rods of about 1cm in diameter and contain fissionable nuclei, like Uranium (235 92U or 238 92U). These rods vary in number according to the size of the react...
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Why You’re Wrong About Nuclear Power
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Nuclear Energy Explained: How does it work? 1/3
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Nuclear Energy is a controversial subject. The pro- and anti-nuclear lobbies fight furiously, and it's difficult to...
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The Truth About Nuclear Energy
Chernobyl, Fukushima, The Simpsons power plant, they all involve lies!
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Chernobyl, Fukushima, The Simpsons power plant, they all involve lies!
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Written by Greg Brown and Laura Roklicer
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InANutShell - How Many People Did Nuclear Energy Kill? Nuclear Death Toll https://youtu.be/Jzfpyo-q-RM
Real Engineering - The Economics of Nuclear Energy https://youtu.be/UC_BCz0pzMw
References:
The Story of More by Hope Jahren
https://academic.oup.com/eurheartj/article/40/20/1590/5372326
https://ourworldindata.org/safest-sources-of-energy
https://www.nature.com/articles/497539e
https://environmentalprogress.org/big-news/2020/6/29/on-behalf-of-environmentalists-i-apologize-for-the-climate-scare
https://www.health.harvard.edu/cancer/radiation-risk-from-medical-imaging
https://www.newyorker.com/news/dispatch/is-nuclear-power-worth-the-risk
How To Avoid a Climate Disaster by Bill Gates
https://www.google.com/url?q=http://wedocs.unep.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.11822/7790/-Radiation_Effects_and_sources-2016Radiation_-_Effects_and_Sources.pdg.pdf.pdf?sequence%3D1%26isAllowed%3Dy&sa=D&source=editors&ust=1616634317411000&usg=AOvVaw3RQ_1UzwPOVYd1BEN5JEMQ
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6194698/
https://ourworldindata.org/safest-sources-of-energy
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2996147/
https://vault.sierraclub.org/nuclear/factsheet.aspx
https://wn.com/The_Truth_About_Nuclear_Energy
Chernobyl, Fukushima, The Simpsons power plant, they all involve lies!
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Real Engineering - The Economics of Nuclear Energy https://youtu.be/UC_BCz0pzMw
References:
The Story of More by Hope Jahren
https://academic.oup.com/eurheartj/article/40/20/1590/5372326
https://ourworldindata.org/safest-sources-of-energy
https://www.nature.com/articles/497539e
https://environmentalprogress.org/big-news/2020/6/29/on-behalf-of-environmentalists-i-apologize-for-the-climate-scare
https://www.health.harvard.edu/cancer/radiation-risk-from-medical-imaging
https://www.newyorker.com/news/dispatch/is-nuclear-power-worth-the-risk
How To Avoid a Climate Disaster by Bill Gates
https://www.google.com/url?q=http://wedocs.unep.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.11822/7790/-Radiation_Effects_and_sources-2016Radiation_-_Effects_and_Sources.pdg.pdf.pdf?sequence%3D1%26isAllowed%3Dy&sa=D&source=editors&ust=1616634317411000&usg=AOvVaw3RQ_1UzwPOVYd1BEN5JEMQ
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6194698/
https://ourworldindata.org/safest-sources-of-energy
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2996147/
https://vault.sierraclub.org/nuclear/factsheet.aspx
- published: 25 Mar 2021
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What is Nuclear Energy? | National Geographic
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- published: 12 Oct 2017
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The political sabotage of nuclear power
Abundant, emissions-free energy was once the promise of a nuclear-powered future. What happened?
Full text and links: https://reason.com/video/2024/03/05/the-...
Abundant, emissions-free energy was once the promise of a nuclear-powered future. What happened?
Full text and links: https://reason.com/video/2024/03/05/the-political-sabotage-of-nuclear-power/
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Once upon a time, America embraced nuclear power as the future of energy. Today it accounts for a mere 18 percent of the nation's electricity generation, while fossil fuels remain dominant at 60 percent. Why did nuclear fail to take off?
From 1967 to 1972, the nuclear sector experienced significant growth, and 48 new nuclear plants were built. But in March 1979, a meltdown at Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island nuclear power plant, which resulted in no casualties and no lingering environmental damage, spooked the entire nation and empowered anti-nuclear activists.
Written and produced by Zach Weissmueller. Edited by Danielle Thompson. Camera by Jim Epstein and Kevin Alexander. Graphics by Adani Samat. Sound by Ian Keyser.
Photo Credits: Louis Lanzano/Polaris/Newscom; Erik McGregor/Pacific Press/Newscom; JB NICHOLAS / Splash News/Newscom; Erik Mcgregor/ZUMA Press/Newscom; Erik Thomas/NY Post/MEGA / Newscom/DBNYC/Newscom; Pool/ABACA/Newscom; Jon G. Fuller / VWPics/Newscom; imageBROKER/J. Ehrlich/Newscom; */Kyodo/Newscom; RICHARD B. LEVINE/Newscom; FRANCES M. ROBERTS/Newscom; Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call/Newscom; MOURAD ALLILI/SIPA/Newscom; Pacific Press/Sipa USA/Newscom; Paul Hennessy / SOPA Images/Sipa/Newscom; Michael Siluk/UCG/Universal Images Group/Newscom; Joe Sohm/Visions of America/Joseph Sohm/Universal Images Group/Newscom; KEVIN DIETSCH/UPI/Newscom; ROGER L. WOLLENBERG/UPI/Newscom; Utrecht Robin/ZUMAPRESS/Newscom; Dick Darrell/Toronto Star/ZUMA Press/Newscom; St Petersburg Times/ZUMAPRESS/Newscom; Ron Adar, M10s/ZUMAPRESS/Newscom; Reginald Mathalone/ZUMAPRESS/Newscom; Hans Pennink/ZUMAPRESS/Newscom; Paul Hennessy/ZUMAPRESS/Newscom; Antti Yrjonen/ZUMA Press/Newscom; Brittany Murray/ZUMA Press/Newscom; Meghan McCarthy/ZUMA Press/Newscom; Dan Herrick/ZUMAPRESS/Newscom; Nuclear Regulatory Commission, CC BY 2.0 DEED, via Wikimedia Commons; Library of Congress/Bernard Gotfryd; Jmnbqb, CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED, via
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Abundant, emissions-free energy was once the promise of a nuclear-powered future. What happened?
Full text and links: https://reason.com/video/2024/03/05/the-political-sabotage-of-nuclear-power/
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Once upon a time, America embraced nuclear power as the future of energy. Today it accounts for a mere 18 percent of the nation's electricity generation, while fossil fuels remain dominant at 60 percent. Why did nuclear fail to take off?
From 1967 to 1972, the nuclear sector experienced significant growth, and 48 new nuclear plants were built. But in March 1979, a meltdown at Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island nuclear power plant, which resulted in no casualties and no lingering environmental damage, spooked the entire nation and empowered anti-nuclear activists.
Written and produced by Zach Weissmueller. Edited by Danielle Thompson. Camera by Jim Epstein and Kevin Alexander. Graphics by Adani Samat. Sound by Ian Keyser.
Photo Credits: Louis Lanzano/Polaris/Newscom; Erik McGregor/Pacific Press/Newscom; JB NICHOLAS / Splash News/Newscom; Erik Mcgregor/ZUMA Press/Newscom; Erik Thomas/NY Post/MEGA / Newscom/DBNYC/Newscom; Pool/ABACA/Newscom; Jon G. Fuller / VWPics/Newscom; imageBROKER/J. Ehrlich/Newscom; */Kyodo/Newscom; RICHARD B. LEVINE/Newscom; FRANCES M. ROBERTS/Newscom; Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call/Newscom; MOURAD ALLILI/SIPA/Newscom; Pacific Press/Sipa USA/Newscom; Paul Hennessy / SOPA Images/Sipa/Newscom; Michael Siluk/UCG/Universal Images Group/Newscom; Joe Sohm/Visions of America/Joseph Sohm/Universal Images Group/Newscom; KEVIN DIETSCH/UPI/Newscom; ROGER L. WOLLENBERG/UPI/Newscom; Utrecht Robin/ZUMAPRESS/Newscom; Dick Darrell/Toronto Star/ZUMA Press/Newscom; St Petersburg Times/ZUMAPRESS/Newscom; Ron Adar, M10s/ZUMAPRESS/Newscom; Reginald Mathalone/ZUMAPRESS/Newscom; Hans Pennink/ZUMAPRESS/Newscom; Paul Hennessy/ZUMAPRESS/Newscom; Antti Yrjonen/ZUMA Press/Newscom; Brittany Murray/ZUMA Press/Newscom; Meghan McCarthy/ZUMA Press/Newscom; Dan Herrick/ZUMAPRESS/Newscom; Nuclear Regulatory Commission, CC BY 2.0 DEED, via Wikimedia Commons; Library of Congress/Bernard Gotfryd; Jmnbqb, CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED, via
Wikimedia Commons; Truzguiladh, CC BY-SA 2.5 DEED, via Wikimedia Commons; Georgia Power; Edibobb, CC BY 3.0 DEED, via Wikimedia Commons; Michael Barera, CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED, via Wikimedia Commons; Ken Lund, CC BY-SA 2.0 DEED, via Wikimedia Commons; Z22, CC BY-SA 3.0 DEED, via Wikimedia Commons; Ron Sachs - CNP for NY Post/CNP / Polaris/Newscom
- published: 05 Mar 2024
- views: 9303
16:11
The Economics of Nuclear Energy
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[1] https://wedocs.unep.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.11822/29752/GTR2019.pdf
[2] https://www.electricitymap.org/zone/GB?solar=false&remote=true&wind=false
[3] http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2016/ph241/keller2/docs/schlissel.pdf
[4] https://www.eia.gov/electricity/generatorcosts/
[5] https://youtu.be/cbeJIwF1pVY
[6] http://css.umich.edu/factsheets/nuclear-energy-factsheet#:~:text=A%20uranium%20fuel%20pellet%20(1,or%203%20barrels%20of%20oil.&text=Typical%20reactors%20hold%2018%20million%20pellets.&text=Each%20kWh%20of%20nuclear%20electricity,of%20life%20cycle%20energy%20inputs.
[7] https://online.ucpress.edu/cse/article/3/1/1/108808/Closing-Diablo-Canyon-Nuclear-Power-Plant-2009
[8]http://www.montereycountyweekly.com/blogs/news_blog/pg-es-massive-battery-storage-project-at-moss-landing-is-approved/article_d024179c-5d77-11ea-a4b8-334d45b7f474.html
[9] https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/aeo/pdf/electricity_generation.pdf
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Thumbnail: Simon Buckmaster https://twitter.com/forgottentowel
References:
[1] https://wedocs.unep.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.11822/29752/GTR2019.pdf
[2] https://www.electricitymap.org/zone/GB?solar=false&remote=true&wind=false
[3] http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2016/ph241/keller2/docs/schlissel.pdf
[4] https://www.eia.gov/electricity/generatorcosts/
[5] https://youtu.be/cbeJIwF1pVY
[6] http://css.umich.edu/factsheets/nuclear-energy-factsheet#:~:text=A%20uranium%20fuel%20pellet%20(1,or%203%20barrels%20of%20oil.&text=Typical%20reactors%20hold%2018%20million%20pellets.&text=Each%20kWh%20of%20nuclear%20electricity,of%20life%20cycle%20energy%20inputs.
[7] https://online.ucpress.edu/cse/article/3/1/1/108808/Closing-Diablo-Canyon-Nuclear-Power-Plant-2009
[8]http://www.montereycountyweekly.com/blogs/news_blog/pg-es-massive-battery-storage-project-at-moss-landing-is-approved/article_d024179c-5d77-11ea-a4b8-334d45b7f474.html
[9] https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/aeo/pdf/electricity_generation.pdf
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Songs:
Thank you to my patreon supporters: Adam Flohr, Henning Basma, Hank Green, William Leu, Tristan Edwards, Ian Dundore, John & Becki Johnston. Nevin Spoljaric, Jason Clark, Thomas Barth, Johnny MacDonald, Stephen Foland, Alfred Holzheu, Abdulrahman Abdulaziz Binghaith, Brent Higgins, Dexter Appleberry, Alex Pavek, Marko Hirsch, Mikkel Johansen, Hibiyi Mori. Viktor Józsa, Ron Hochsprung
- published: 06 Jun 2020
- views: 1841768
8:07
How do nuclear power plants work? - M. V. Ramana and Sajan Saini
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Our ability to mine great amounts of energy fro...
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Our ability to mine great amounts of energy from uranium nuclei has led some to bill nuclear power as a plentiful, utopian source of electricity. But rather than dominate the global electricity market, nuclear power has declined from a high of 18% in 1996 to 11% today. What happened to the great promise of this technology? M.V. Ramana and Sajan Saini detail the challenges of nuclear power.
Lesson by M. V. Ramana and Sajan Saini, animation by Wooden Plane Productions.
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Our ability to mine great amounts of energy from uranium nuclei has led some to bill nuclear power as a plentiful, utopian source of electricity. But rather than dominate the global electricity market, nuclear power has declined from a high of 18% in 1996 to 11% today. What happened to the great promise of this technology? M.V. Ramana and Sajan Saini detail the challenges of nuclear power.
Lesson by M. V. Ramana and Sajan Saini, animation by Wooden Plane Productions.
- published: 08 May 2017
- views: 3080808
21:23
Why Nuclear Energy Is On The Verge Of A Renaissance
For some, nuclear power may conjure images of mushroom clouds or bring back memories of disturbing nuclear disasters like Chernobyle and Fukushima. But despite ...
For some, nuclear power may conjure images of mushroom clouds or bring back memories of disturbing nuclear disasters like Chernobyle and Fukushima. But despite public fear around nuclear power, the technology has proved to be an emission-free, reliable way to produce large amounts of electricity on a small footprint. As a result, sentiments about the technology are beginning to change.
Both the U.S. government and private companies including X Energy, NuScale and, Bill Gates-backed, TerraPower are pouring money into developing, what they say will be smaller, safer nuclear reactors. CNBC visited Idaho National Laboratory to see the Marvel microreactor firsthand and learn what such developments could mean for the future of nuclear power.
After humankind discovered nuclear fission, the first applied use was the atomic bomb. The study of fission for electricity production came later.
In December 1953, President Dwight D. Eisenhower gave his fateful Atoms for Peace speech, an impassioned plea to reconstitute the power of the atomic bombs dropped in World War II for a more noble cause.
“Against the dark background of the atomic bomb, the United States does not wish merely to present strength, but also the desire and the hope for peace,” Eisenhower told the United Nations.
Almost 70 years later, the tension between those end uses still underlies the space today.
From the 1950s through the 1970s, the United States dramatically increased its nuclear energy generation.
But the Three Mile Island accident in 1979 and Chornobyl meltdown in 1986 changed the landscape, spurring fear that nuclear energy could not be controlled safely.
Since the 1980s, nuclear energy capacity and generation in the U.S. has largely stayed flat. Today, the country’s fleet of nuclear power reactors produces only 19% of the country’s electricity, according to the government’s Energy Information Administration.
In more recent times, the Fukushima Daiichi accident in Japan in 2011 — and earlier this year the capture of nuclear power plants in Ukraine by invading Russian forces — have added to public concerns.
But despite its fraught origin story and the psychological effect of high-profile accidents, nuclear energy is getting a second look.
That’s largely because nuclear energy is clean energy, releasing no greenhouse gasses. Meanwhile, the world is seeing more of the effects of climate change, including rising global temperatures, increased pollution, wildfires, and more intense and deadly storms.
“We need to change course — now — and end our senseless and suicidal war against nature,” Antonio Guterres, the secretary-general of the United Nations, said in Stockholm on Thursday.
“There is one thing that threatens all our progress. The climate crisis. Unless we act now, we will not have a livable planet,” Guterres said. “Scientists recently reported that there is a 50-50 chance that we could temporarily breach the Paris Agreement limit of 1.5 degrees Celsius in the next five years.”
Watch this video for a dive into nuclear energy’s potential renaissance as a response to the growing crisis of climate change.
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Why Nuclear Energy Is On The Verge Of A Renaissance
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For some, nuclear power may conjure images of mushroom clouds or bring back memories of disturbing nuclear disasters like Chernobyle and Fukushima. But despite public fear around nuclear power, the technology has proved to be an emission-free, reliable way to produce large amounts of electricity on a small footprint. As a result, sentiments about the technology are beginning to change.
Both the U.S. government and private companies including X Energy, NuScale and, Bill Gates-backed, TerraPower are pouring money into developing, what they say will be smaller, safer nuclear reactors. CNBC visited Idaho National Laboratory to see the Marvel microreactor firsthand and learn what such developments could mean for the future of nuclear power.
After humankind discovered nuclear fission, the first applied use was the atomic bomb. The study of fission for electricity production came later.
In December 1953, President Dwight D. Eisenhower gave his fateful Atoms for Peace speech, an impassioned plea to reconstitute the power of the atomic bombs dropped in World War II for a more noble cause.
“Against the dark background of the atomic bomb, the United States does not wish merely to present strength, but also the desire and the hope for peace,” Eisenhower told the United Nations.
Almost 70 years later, the tension between those end uses still underlies the space today.
From the 1950s through the 1970s, the United States dramatically increased its nuclear energy generation.
But the Three Mile Island accident in 1979 and Chornobyl meltdown in 1986 changed the landscape, spurring fear that nuclear energy could not be controlled safely.
Since the 1980s, nuclear energy capacity and generation in the U.S. has largely stayed flat. Today, the country’s fleet of nuclear power reactors produces only 19% of the country’s electricity, according to the government’s Energy Information Administration.
In more recent times, the Fukushima Daiichi accident in Japan in 2011 — and earlier this year the capture of nuclear power plants in Ukraine by invading Russian forces — have added to public concerns.
But despite its fraught origin story and the psychological effect of high-profile accidents, nuclear energy is getting a second look.
That’s largely because nuclear energy is clean energy, releasing no greenhouse gasses. Meanwhile, the world is seeing more of the effects of climate change, including rising global temperatures, increased pollution, wildfires, and more intense and deadly storms.
“We need to change course — now — and end our senseless and suicidal war against nature,” Antonio Guterres, the secretary-general of the United Nations, said in Stockholm on Thursday.
“There is one thing that threatens all our progress. The climate crisis. Unless we act now, we will not have a livable planet,” Guterres said. “Scientists recently reported that there is a 50-50 chance that we could temporarily breach the Paris Agreement limit of 1.5 degrees Celsius in the next five years.”
Watch this video for a dive into nuclear energy’s potential renaissance as a response to the growing crisis of climate change.
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Why Nuclear Energy Is On The Verge Of A Renaissance
- published: 07 Jun 2022
- views: 1028087
4:51
Nuclear Reactor - Understanding how it works | Physics Elearnin
Nuclear Reactor - Understanding how it works | Physics Elearnin video
Nuclear reactors are the modern day devices extensively used for power generation as the...
Nuclear Reactor - Understanding how it works | Physics Elearnin video
Nuclear reactors are the modern day devices extensively used for power generation as the traditional fossil fuels, like coal, are at the breach of extinction. A nuclear reactor is the source of intense heat which is in turn used for generation of power in nuclear power station. Its mechanism is similar to that of a furnace in a steam generator; the steam is used to drive the turbines of the electric generator system.
A nuclear reactor consists of three crucial components: Fuel elements, moderator and control rods.
Fuel elements come usually in the shape of thin rods of about 1cm in diameter and contain fissionable nuclei, like Uranium (235 92U or 238 92U). These rods vary in number according to the size of the reactor, in large power reactor thousands of fuel elements are placed close to each other. This region where these fuel elements are placed is called the reactor core. These fuel elements are normally immersed in water which acts as a moderator.
The objective of a moderator is to slow down the energy neutrons in a nuclear reactor which are produced during the nuclear fission process by the fuel elements. Thermal neutrons, which are neutrons with energy of about 0.04 electron volts, are capable of producing fission reaction with 235 92U. During the fission reaction process, new neutrons are given out which have energies of about 1 MeV. These neutrons of typically escape from participating in another fission process as they are accompanied by enormous energy release. In f -ct, the probability of these neutrons produce another fission reaction is 500 times less than as compared to that of a thermal neutron. This is where moderator is extremely useful. Moderator has the capability to slow down, or in other words moderate, the speed of these high-energy neutrons, so that they can in turn be used for a chain reaction to trigger multiple fission reactions of other 235 92U nucleus.
Commonly, ordinary or heavy water is used as moderator in nuclear reactors because of the deuterons present in them which are capable of slowing the neutron speed. Water molecules in the moderator are useful in slowing down the high-energy neutrons which leave the fuel-element after nuclear fission. These high-energy neutrons collide with water molecules thereby losing out on some energy with every collision and therefore slow down substantially. A new fission reaction can now be triggered using this slow neutron by striking it with the fuel element.
The third and of the most prominent part of a nuclear reactor are the control rods. In order to get a steady output of energy from the nuclear reactor, every single nuclear fission reaction should trigger another fission reaction and ensure the availability of a spare neutron released to trigger the chain reaction. By controlling the number of spare neutrons available at any given time, the rate of the nuclear fission chain reaction can be controlled. This control on the fission reaction can be maintained using the control rods.
The main function of the control rods is to absorb any excess or spare neutron in the moderator in order to prevent any further fission reaction. Usually such control rods are made of Boron or Cadmium. To increase the rate of fission reactions, these rods can be removed from the moderator. A steady output of energy can be thus maintained by inserting or removing the control rods in the nuclear reactor.
Now that we know the components of a nuclear reactor, let us understand the working of a nuclear reactor. It is usually enclosed in a shield made of thick concrete walls. It consists of a reactor core, pump and heat exchanger. The reactor core and pump are in placed in contact with the water, which is usually the heat exchanger used in reactors. Due to the enormous amount of heat released dusing nuclear fission reaction, this surrounding water gets heated up and changes to steam, which is in turn used to turn the turbines. Thus huge heat energy gets converted into electrical energy. Water is continuously flown in and out of the nuclear reactor using the pump.
Thus a nuclear reactor successfully generates nuclear energy from fission reaction.
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Nuclear Reactor - Understanding how it works | Physics Elearnin video
Nuclear reactors are the modern day devices extensively used for power generation as the traditional fossil fuels, like coal, are at the breach of extinction. A nuclear reactor is the source of intense heat which is in turn used for generation of power in nuclear power station. Its mechanism is similar to that of a furnace in a steam generator; the steam is used to drive the turbines of the electric generator system.
A nuclear reactor consists of three crucial components: Fuel elements, moderator and control rods.
Fuel elements come usually in the shape of thin rods of about 1cm in diameter and contain fissionable nuclei, like Uranium (235 92U or 238 92U). These rods vary in number according to the size of the reactor, in large power reactor thousands of fuel elements are placed close to each other. This region where these fuel elements are placed is called the reactor core. These fuel elements are normally immersed in water which acts as a moderator.
The objective of a moderator is to slow down the energy neutrons in a nuclear reactor which are produced during the nuclear fission process by the fuel elements. Thermal neutrons, which are neutrons with energy of about 0.04 electron volts, are capable of producing fission reaction with 235 92U. During the fission reaction process, new neutrons are given out which have energies of about 1 MeV. These neutrons of typically escape from participating in another fission process as they are accompanied by enormous energy release. In f -ct, the probability of these neutrons produce another fission reaction is 500 times less than as compared to that of a thermal neutron. This is where moderator is extremely useful. Moderator has the capability to slow down, or in other words moderate, the speed of these high-energy neutrons, so that they can in turn be used for a chain reaction to trigger multiple fission reactions of other 235 92U nucleus.
Commonly, ordinary or heavy water is used as moderator in nuclear reactors because of the deuterons present in them which are capable of slowing the neutron speed. Water molecules in the moderator are useful in slowing down the high-energy neutrons which leave the fuel-element after nuclear fission. These high-energy neutrons collide with water molecules thereby losing out on some energy with every collision and therefore slow down substantially. A new fission reaction can now be triggered using this slow neutron by striking it with the fuel element.
The third and of the most prominent part of a nuclear reactor are the control rods. In order to get a steady output of energy from the nuclear reactor, every single nuclear fission reaction should trigger another fission reaction and ensure the availability of a spare neutron released to trigger the chain reaction. By controlling the number of spare neutrons available at any given time, the rate of the nuclear fission chain reaction can be controlled. This control on the fission reaction can be maintained using the control rods.
The main function of the control rods is to absorb any excess or spare neutron in the moderator in order to prevent any further fission reaction. Usually such control rods are made of Boron or Cadmium. To increase the rate of fission reactions, these rods can be removed from the moderator. A steady output of energy can be thus maintained by inserting or removing the control rods in the nuclear reactor.
Now that we know the components of a nuclear reactor, let us understand the working of a nuclear reactor. It is usually enclosed in a shield made of thick concrete walls. It consists of a reactor core, pump and heat exchanger. The reactor core and pump are in placed in contact with the water, which is usually the heat exchanger used in reactors. Due to the enormous amount of heat released dusing nuclear fission reaction, this surrounding water gets heated up and changes to steam, which is in turn used to turn the turbines. Thus huge heat energy gets converted into electrical energy. Water is continuously flown in and out of the nuclear reactor using the pump.
Thus a nuclear reactor successfully generates nuclear energy from fission reaction.
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